Twin Peaks attorneys honored with Lawyer of the Year award

[Elderberry]

WacoTrib by Kristin Hoppa 6/20/2018

Defense attorneys Casie Gotro and Clint Broden will receive top honors Thursday from the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association for their role in challenging the mass prosecution of bikers in the 2015 shootout at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco.

Gotro and Broden will be named as the association’s Percy Foreman Lawyers of the Year at a banquet Thursday in San Antonio.

Casie Gotro, of Houston, defended Jacob Carrizal last fall in the first and only Twin Peaks case that has gone to trial. The five-week trial of Carrizal, president of the Dallas chapter of the Bandidos, ended in a mistrial. He was later re-indicted on a first-degree riot charge, which has a maximum possible sentence of life in prison.

Throughout the Carrizal trial, Gotro repeatedly cited instances in which DA’s office withheld evidence throughout the trial, which ended with a deadlocked jury.

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[Oceander]

Criminal defense attorneys are one of the few groups of lawyers who actually deserve to be lauded for their work. 

[Frank Cannon]

Criminal defense attorneys are one of the few groups of lawyers who actually deserve to be lauded for their work.

 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Criminal defense attorneys are one of the few groups of lawyers who actually deserve to be lauded for their work.

Let me guess.  RU one of them perhaps?

[WingNot]

Criminal defense attorneys are one of the few groups of lawyers who actually deserve to be lauded for their work.

WTF?

[Frank Cannon]

WTF?

[Frank Cannon]

[WingNot]

They are all dead except OJ.  How Fed up is that?

[Frank Cannon]

They are all dead except OJ. 

OJ do it?

[WingNot]

OJ do it?

The glove dindunuffin

[Oceander]

Let me guess.  RU one of them perhaps?

Nope.  For me there are only two bad guys:  the IRS and the relevant state taxing authority. 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Nope.  For me there are only two bad guys:  the IRS and the relevant state taxing authority.

I can add to the list.

Corrupt judges and politicians.  Am close to adding to the list entrenched bureaucrats.

[Oceander]

I can add to the list.

Corrupt judges and politicians.  Am close to adding to the list entrenched bureaucrats.

Perhaps I was misunderstood.  I am not a criminal defense attorney.  I do tax law. 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Perhaps I was misunderstood.  I am not a criminal defense attorney.  I do tax law.

I think we are on the same page here.  I understand now your attitude toward the IRS and tax authorities.  Both are arbitrary and take things beyond their stated job descriptions.

May not be evil, but certainly capriciously authoritative.

My list includes corrupt people who are definitely out for themselves.  They live in a deeper hole.